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Last weekend I popped a letter through the door of a few elderly neighbours, offering to do shopping, etc for them if they didn`t want to go out themselves.

Absolutely no problem for me, as I work at a discounter...

One couple sent back a nice letter, asking me to get about half a dozen things for them, which I did.

But now they have put the payment for said goods through my letter box, plus €20 to "go to the cinema".

Whilst it really is a nice gesture on their side, I feel totally awkward about it - all I wanted to do was make sure they stay home and don`t get ill, and now I feel like they are literally paying me for getting that little bit of shopping. I don`t want to offend them, but at the same time I don`t feel I can accept so much "payment" - I was thinking more in terms of rounding up to the nearest € or so...

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Hi Rob! You are a kind soul🙏🏻
I personally would thank them and say it is not necessary and we are all in this together.
And Gott schuetze Dich or something like that. I don’t think they would be offended!

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@robinson100 well, it looks like you found a solution, but in case you're open to changing your mind: I would just tell them it was no trouble at all and I'll hold on to the €20 until the next time I pick up things for them. Or you could use half of the money to bring them some more stuff that they already asked for and use the rest to buy yourself a cake or something, and offer them some of the cake.

I dunno, I am tucked away here away from humanity and have no idea how normal people do things anymore!

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We just returned from our weekend shopping at the local Rewe. Access to the store was controlled, one out, one in, and shopping was a breeze. All the shelves were stocked, with no shortages that I could see. The toilet paper and kitchen towel shelves were about two-thirds full with several brands, and there was a pallet of ja! toilet paper and kitchen towels near the checkout line. There was a store limit of one pack of toilet paper (10 rolls of 160 sheets) per person per visit. I didn't notice if there was any hand sanitizer.

We still have paper from our last purchase two months ago, so we didn't buy any today. While waiting the four or five minutes in line to get in the store, I noticed that at least half of the people leaving didn't have any toilet paper in their carts. Maybe the hoarding madness is over...at least in my town.

if your place of work kicks you out or puts you on short time working...

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